^I won't allow you to talk to Ahura like that. Now watch it!

Spread the news to anyone you think will benefit from this. "Harvard University is now guaranteeing that students from low-income families (earning less than $40,000 annually) won't have to pay for their children's education. Also, households earning less than $60,000 per year will get a reduction in tuition. This was announced in Feb. 2004. The Harvard president, Lawrence H. Summers, says the school wants to "recruit talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds." He also says, "Our doors have long been open to talented students regardless of financial need, but many students simply do not know or believe this. We are determined to change both the perception and the reality.'' About 1,000 of Harvard's 6,600 undergraduates are expected to benefit from these new initiatives." Find More Here or call the school's financial aid office at (617) 495-1581.

Originally posted by Yeniceri: and then a $50 million contract was signed between the TFG and an American security firm?) ^I thought that contract was dissolved, is it still on?

Where are your other 50 posts?

Xiinow...ninyahow Baro family waa dad fiican, lakiin kuwa hadal badan baa kujira, ma kuwaas baa kuwareriyay QQ...sxb warar badan baa kudhaafay. Kuwa way qaxeen, kuwana way isdhiibeen sababtoo ah dagaalo sokeeye baa dhacay and baro family waa laga hiiliyay waana lagu goobtay. Hada adiga recruit cusub bilaab or isdhiib ama qax oo meesha kacarar intaan laguqaban

^ Good Xiin you just have to accept your fate. Absolutely nothing you can do. Even suing will not solve the problem. You already spent energy and resource on this and suing will only exhaust you more. I once felt wronged and decided to just atleast file a complaint report. But by the time I obtain all the information and filed the report at the proper office/dept, I had to wonder if it was all worth it.

Originally posted by LayZieGirl: quote:Oh sorry............ losers corner. MODERATORS, why aren't you deleting this post, how can you miss that??? If you MODs are given the greenlight on this, I might as well let K know he is the biggest of all. ^Shaneneh maxaa rubta hada? quuqda jooji.

^Baro family way qaxeen.

"Some days, he would have the kids go get a stick themselves." ^This reminded me of Somalia. I hope we don't find ourselves in that situation but I worry for these violent kids in the west.

^ These Brits.....I tell ya!

Wiilo...Waan ku salaamay.

Dr. Joseph Z. Kazigo, top, was killed last year. Mulumba Kazigo, bottom, one of Dr. Kazigo's sons, is charged with the crime. SOMERS, N.Y. - Dr. Joseph Z. Kazigo enjoyed all the trappings of the American dream: a pale yellow colonial-style house here with a stream out back; a career as an emergency-room surgeon; seven grown children, two of them West Point graduates. So when the bedroom of his Long Island apartment was found slicked with blood after his family reported him missing, his friends and colleagues were horrified. More horror would follow. Within days, the police arrested his son Mulumba, 26, a quiet, seemingly gentle student at the State University at Albany. The police say he confessed to killing his father, and led a group of investigators to the body, which was wrapped in plastic bags and hidden in underbrush by a reservoir near the family home in northern Westchester County. The story did not end with Mulumba Kazigo's arrest, however. As he has waited in the Nassau County jail since late August, held without bail on charges of second-degree murder, his family has rallied around him, waging a campaign to explain the son's actions by depicting the father as a brute. The siblings have described a household in which they lived in fear of their father's return home on weekends. (During the week, Dr. Kazigo, 67, stayed in his apartment near Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, where he worked the night shift.) They have told of beatings for infractions as slight as putting sugar on cereal. They have described how Dr. Kazigo shoved the head of one of his daughters through a window and then stitched up her cuts without anesthesia. They also attribute the mental illness of four of the children, including Mulumba, to what they say was the father's cruelty. "Dr. Kazigo was a very troubled man and led two lives," said Steven J. Chaikin, Mulumba Kazigo's lawyer. "He had a life during the week at the hospital where he was admired by his colleagues and was apparently a very good surgeon. Then he went home occasionally and really did some awful things to his kids and to Caroline," his wife. Mr. Chaikin said that Mrs. Kazigo did not take part in the abuse of the children. She herself was abused, he said, although it was more often psychological than physical. Mrs. Kazigo declined to answer questions. "The more I talk, the more I get depressed with the issue," she said when reached by phone. "Enough is enough. It's so painful. This is a tragic death." Mulumba Kazigo has pleaded not guilty. Mr. Chaikin is considering various legal strategies, including a so-called battered child defense and one based on Mulumba's mental status at the time of the killing. But prosecutors have dismissed the idea that the son was defending himself. They have called the murder a "sneak attack," contending that the son killed Dr. Kazigo as he slept on the morning of Aug. 24 by bludgeoning him with a baseball bat and slitting his throat with a knife. "Unfortunately for the defendant, any abuse in this case is a motive for doing what he did," said Eric Phillips, a spokesman for the Nassau County district attorney's office. "It certainly isn't self-defense. He wasn't currently in a fight with his father. He planned a murder ahead of time and executed it." A native of Uganda, Dr. Kazigo came to the United States in the early 1960's. He was active among Ugandan immigrants, helping to found a local chapter of Gwanga Mujje, a group promoting social and economic development in the Buganda kingdom of Uganda. As a surgeon, Dr. Kazigo earned the respect of colleagues, first at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx and more recently at Nassau University Medical Center. "At any time in the last 20 years, if you took a poll at the hospital and asked, who is the most highly thought of doctor, he would probably be named," said a former colleague, Dr. Sam P. Kigongo, a trauma surgeon at Lincoln. Dr. Kigongo socialized with Dr. Kazigo outside of the hospital, but said he rarely saw him at home. He described his demeanor at the hospital as "very formal and strict," but said he never heard him raise his voice. But according to Mr. Chaikin, who said he had talked to all seven children and Mrs. Kazigo, Dr. Kazigo raised more than his voice at home. Much of the information came from the oldest daughter, a West Point graduate who is now an Army doctor stationed in Hawaii. "When he came home, he tortured his kids," Mr. Chaikin said bluntly. Mulumba's older brother, Gabe, gave an interview to Newsday in September in which he described several examples of abuse. Family members declined to be interviewed for this article, preferring to let Mr. Chaikin speak for them. The cereal episode was recounted in harrowing detail by Gabe, as well as other siblings, Mr. Chaikin said. In the mid-1980's, after the siblings made the mistake of putting sugar on their breakfast cereal, the father made all seven children, then ages 2 to 12, take off their clothes and lie face down on the living-room floor, Mr. Chaikin said. The father then stepped on their heads and beat their backs with a tree branch until they bled, Mr. Chaikin said. Then each child was ordered to say "thank you" and sent upstairs to listen to the others' screams. Another punishment involved a young son, Lwanga, whose wrists were tied to the overhead pipes in the basement, Mr. Chaikin said. He was then beaten with a stick. "It's a real tragedy," Mr. Chaikin said. "Some days, he would have the kids go get a stick themselves." Mr. Chaikin also related how the father once thrust the head of his daughter Bernadette, then 15, through a glass window. "What does Dr. Kazigo do?" he said. "He can't have her go to a hospital because this is an obvious abuse, and he sews it up himself without any anesthetic." Over the years, Mulumba Kazigo attempted suicide several times, Mr. Chaikin said. But some look upon the abuse allegations skeptically, wondering why they did not surface earlier. Francis M. Ssekandi, an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School who went to school with Dr. Kazigo in Uganda, said he had no specific knowledge of the nature of discipline in the Kazigo home. But he said he doubted that it was so extreme that it could lead to murder. "In Uganda, many of the successful people who have been able to go to school have had tough parents," he said. "Those kids were not successful for nothing. I wouldn't dispute that he was a disciplinarian with his kids, but if it had been so bad, I would expect it to have been brought up in the community." As the children grew into adults, the beatings became less frequent, and at least two of the sons, including Mulumba, started to resist, Mr. Chaikin said. Last year, when Dr. Kazigo made a move to beat Mulumba in the head with a book, for instance, Mulumba pushed him, the lawyer said. On the night of Aug. 25, Dr. Kazigo's colleagues grew alarmed after he failed to show up for work. A member of the hospital staff alerted the doctor's family in Somers; Mulumba, in turn, called the local precinct on Long Island to report the father missing. "An officer was dispatched, and while we were at the apartment, Mulumba made a number of additional calls and asked what was going on," said Detective. Lt. Dennis Farrell of the Nassau County Police Homicide Squad. At the back of the house in Westbury where Dr. Kazigo rented an apartment, the police found a glass door shattered. Inside, a trail of blood led upstairs. "There was a tremendous amount of blood in the bedroom," Lieutenant Farrell said. "The blood spatter evidence was indicative of multiple strikes. There was no way that the victim could have left on his own." None of the neighbors heard anything unusual, but one reported seeing a young black man outside the house on the morning of Aug. 24 and then saw someone backing a white car up into the driveway. When detectives arrived in Somers at 1 a.m. on Aug. 26, they spotted a white car on the family's property on Route 202. "The trunk was open and it appeared that someone had tried to clean it out," Lieutenant Farrell said. "The detectives smelled the distinctive smell of death in the trunk." Mulumba Kazigo told detectives that he had taken the car, which belonged to a brother, to visit his father on the morning of Aug 24, Lieutenant Farrell said. He made a number of incriminating statements during the drive to Nassau County, and at police headquarters he confessed to killing his father before leading investigators to the body back in Westchester, the lieutenant said. Mr. Chaikin said Dr. Kazigo "triggered" Mulumba's attack, but refused to be more specific. "Mulumba was driven to act to prevent what he quite reasonably felt would have spelled disaster for his mom and or himself and his siblings," he said. Despite the family's support for Mulumba, there is also profound sadness for the father. At the funeral in early September, one daughter, Dr. Nakizito Kazigo of Hawaii, gave an emotional elegy, describing him as strict but kind, according to an account in The Journal News, which covers Westchester. Mulumba asked for permission to attend the funeral, but a judge denied it. "When I talk to the family, I don't say what a monster Daddy was," Mr. Chaikin said. "This family does support Mulumba. They know why he did what he did. But there's a lot of love there. It's strange, and it's painful to listen to. Even Mulumba was torn." Source

Oh sorry............ losers corner. You need drama right?

Samir iyo iman to his family.

^ Bisharo...wallee ciyaar matihid. Anigu waxaan lahaa dhexyar saacid oo haka faa-iido meesha ayada ah. Meeshaas waa meel qarsoon oo maryooley yar isku barato waliba kuwa mpls cedar area, waxaa meeshaas ku jira rag badan oo hablo radis ah, eega ka'gaar, warka abraarna kabax, ayada way ishubtaaye. Hadii kale aabo sonkor aan kuu noqdo Abraaray.....adiga iga gambiso, walligay meeshaas matagin. Qofbaa iisheegay ina somali lagu arkay iyo wax raula u eg .

Halkani ma golaha asxaabta? War meesha maxay rag kudhamadeen. Yaan raga la isku daran, isku mid ma ahee agaa Anyway, waxii ay aroos heblaayo, ruwaayad hebel, iyo somali malls ushaqeenwaysay ha iska xaadiriyo Match.com Waxii su'aal ah Raula waydiiya ayadaa labo sano kaxaadiresneed meeshaas lol.

"Is wayne brady gonna have to choke a b!t@"

^saxiib nothing will get done. The new contract is for 3yrs. MPI will probably go out of business as gov. was their only client and the employees will be hired by the new company.

^Amiin.......

You can work but you can't own! City council of mpls recently took very lucrative parking ramp contract from MPI, employee owned company with significant Somali and minority employees and awarded the contract to large white owned company from the west coast. The reasons cited were very weak like MPI didn’t have good marketing skills? Give me a break. And to make it worst, they are reassuring the employees by offering employment with the new company...what the hell? Here is the story Op-ed from local black owned newspaper Background info

Newsweek magazine’s cover story this week is the widening achievement gab between boys and girls in the US. The article says “by almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind†“boys are two times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with learning disabilities and twice as likely to be placed in special education classes.†Now, I don’t know if anyone has done any specific study on Somali students and achievement gabs. But anyone who has attended high school or college in the US would know the obvious widening disparity between the number of Somali girls pursuing education compared to boys. For some time now Somali girls have outpaced boys when it comes to education. Even when boys attend school, they either drop out or don’t perform as well as girls. According to the article causes include lack of father figure, lack of encouragement to pursue leadership opportunities, misguided feminism (all attention to girls), suppression of male brain chemistry, and delayed boys brain development up to 18mnths. The article claims some possible solutions include separation of girls from boys in the classroom, give boys opportunity to be “boys†make lectures fast paced and exciting, provide mentorship opportunity, etc. Anyway, have you guys seen this phenomenon too and are other countries the same and what, if any implication does this have for us living abroad in the future or those in Somalia? According to the article, Margaret Spelling, US secr.of education, says widening achievement gap “has profound implications for the economy, society, families and democracy.†Also, what are the main reasons for Somali boys’ lack of interest in school? And what can be done to encourage more young boys to pursue and enjoy learning. Is our problem similar to the mainstream, if so can their suggestions work for Somalis as well? Here is the Newsweek article

Newsweek magazine’s cover story this week is the widening achievement gab between boys and girls in the US. The article says “by almost every benchmark, boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind†“boys are two times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with learning disabilities and twice as likely to be placed in special education classes.†Now, I don’t know if anyone has done any specific study on Somali students and achievement gabs. But anyone who has attended high school or college in the US would know the obvious widening disparity between the number of Somali girls pursuing education compared to boys. For some time now Somali girls have outpaced boys when it comes to education. Even when boys attend school, they either drop out or don’t perform as well as girls. According to the article causes include lack of father figure, lack of encouragement to pursue leadership opportunities, misguided feminism (all attention to girls), suppression of male brain chemistry, and delayed boys brain development up to 18mnths. The article claims some possible solutions include separation of girls from boys in the classroom, give boys opportunity to be “boys†make lectures fast paced and exciting, provide mentorship opportunity, etc. Anyway, have you guys seen this phenomenon too and are other countries the same and what, if any implication does this have for us living abroad in the future or those in Somalia? According to the article, Margaret Spelling, US secr.of education, says widening achievement gap “has profound implications for the economy, society, families and democracy.†Also, what are the main reasons for Somali boys’ lack of interest in school? And what can be done to encourage more young boys to pursue and enjoy learning. Is our problem similar to the mainstream, if so can their suggestions work for Somalis as well? Here is the Newsweek article

Originally posted by Castro: ^ You can't get over them showers, can you? ^^Obviously she haven't

` It’s not really helping when nomads say Juma should be reinstates just because there are others like him. You should name names, so admin or mods can keep an eye on those pple and ban them as well, even highlight their offensive things if you must. And it’s also nonsense to suggest bad things are all around us we should not be offended by this incident. I have never seen anyone say “…raping was my pleasure…†and I have seen or experienced horrific things. Anyway, I think Juma should be reinstated just because he was an active member, he made a mistake, and he paid his price (banned for days or months). Now that he had enough time off to realize his mistake, admin should consider given him another chance. Also, I don’t see the need for an apology, maybe to admin and mods. It serves no purpose but to humiliate and it would be fake and half hearted. I understand what he said was repulsive and he was rightly banned, but now is time to move on and give him another chance.

Breath In and Breath Out Folks Munich was about how revenge never resolves a conflict. The jews were upset about this movie because it showed how they could not and can not win with revenge. Even at the end of the movie after the assassins complete the job, they feel dissatisfied, even remorseful. I just don't get how someone can watch this movie and come out mad and in pursuit of revenge.